The Impact of Natural Disasters on Child Health and Investments in Rural India docx

... regressions using a continuous indicator of exposure to disaster months The Impact of Natural Disasters on Child Health and Investments in Rural India ASHLESHA DATAR, JENNY LIU, SEBASTIAN LINNEMAYR, ... focus on the occurrence of any non- epidemic disaster in any state in order to generalize across all disasters in India. The geographic distri...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:20

... reduction in the number of abandoned children. Next, we use the variation in fertility and child abandonment at the regional level and find that the immediate impact of abortion legalization on child ... early childhood (at age 4 and 5) and the impact of the lift of the ban on child abandonment. We conduct our empirical analysis on children...

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... is the same as the (observed) distribution of C i (0) in the non-treated group. In other words, the outcomes of the untreated are independent of participation into treatment S i , conditional on observable ... that the test of the balancing property is performed only on the observations whose propensity score belongs to the intersection of the supports o...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 11:20

... after controlling for all the other types of feeds in different feeding strategies used by farmers (and controlling for breed and season), (2) an understanding of the constraints on adopting the ... classes in the area, (b) differences among the households in the sub-location in terms of their well-being, (c) the causes and indicators of these diffe...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:20

... Moreover, raising the awareness of health professionals regarding the importance of these procedures and involving them in implementation can facilitate the adherence of patients and increase efficiency ... continuing or terminating a pregnancy as a direct determination on the life of the fetus or the woman. Emotional and moral dilemmas are inevitably inheren...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 14:20

... provides critical information on key principles guiding health workers in managing HIV/AIDS, whether in preventing new infections, caring for them or mitigating its impact. For this reason, it is important ... cases, including the route of transmission, the inoculum of infectious virus and the host’s immune response to the exposure (Mandell et al., 2000). Blood of al...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 10:20

... rating of child health while controlling for chronic health conditions. However, the level of chronic health conditions in children living in poverty may be part of the causal pathway, considering ... interactions between parents and other adults, the microcontext of interactions between parents and children, the macrocontext of the neighborhood one lives...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... Regulation, the CEPR conference on Bank Crisis Prevention and Resolution, the European Finance Association Conference, the Reserve Bank of Chicago Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, the ... precise information on the individual customer, we only know that the customer banked with any one of the group. We thus link the customer characteristics to the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... that the transmission mechanism of monetary policy depends on the institutional characteristics of the financial system, we go on to split the sample of countries into two groups depending on their ... effects on residential property prices, and therefore on the economy, since the interest rates on all loans are reset at the same time. In contrast, in...

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